Introduction to Spoken Word Iain Wallace

Spoken Word Services www.spokenword.ac.uk

Blackpool, January 2007

Outline for day - 10.15: Introductions - Spoken Word

Services - 11.30: Break- 11.45: Group work - discussion- 12.30: Lunch- 13.30: Library 2.0 presentation- 14.30: Break- 14.45: Learning Spaces presentation- 15.15 Group work - discussion & questions- 16.00 Finish

Who are we?JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the ClassroomDuration and Nature of the Project (TEL)

GCU teamProject Partners- BBC Information & Archives- Academic Technologies, Northwestern

University- MATRIX, Michigan State University

Pedagogy, Content and Annotation Tools

A National Agenda?Education Agenda- Personalisation, Inclusion, Flexibility,

Productivity

JISC Agenda – DLIC Programme – Spoken Word‘Transformation of Teaching and Learning’Bringing emerging technologies and available

digital content into core teaching and learning

BBC Agenda- Charter and licence payers- Opening access to content

What content do we have?Depth and breadth of the BBC ArchivesImportance of BBC – ‘Britain’s intelligent

conversation’Authentic, rich resources for learning and

teaching; currently not easily accessible

Copyright – Deposit Agreement and User License

Early focus on digital audio, now video too

CollaborationsTeachingTechnicalOrganisational

LocalNationalInternational

CollaborationsTowards an international Community of Practice ….

- English Language at Bologna- Political Economy at Glasgow Caledonian- Social work and Social Policy at Glasgow Caledonian- Anthropology (History of India) at Columbia- History (impact of technology since 1945) at

Northwestern- Law and Ethics at Edinburgh- Hospitality Management at Strathclyde- Biology (Ethics and Genetics) at Glasgow Caledonian- Women in British Politics at Kansas State

What are we trying to do?Spoken Word aims and objectives

Learning and teaching!(not primarily about technology, or

research)

JISC said ….‘Transformation of Teaching and Learning’

Transform what and why?

PedagogySome Traditional Values…Aspirations and

Ambitions

‘To induce students to think for themselves, work on their own …. and contribute to the work of groups’

But Elite Values and Mass Higher Education

Potential Opportunities and Advantages of C&IT

PedagogySome Contemporary Realities…

Social and Technological Imperatives Citizenship, Work and Leisure in an Ever-Changing World

Embracing the Socio-Technological World of the Modern Learner

Enhancing access to content

Spoken Word modelEnabling Pedagogical Pluralism...

Banks of content: the ‘essence’ (primary audio repositories)

Catalogues and finding aids (secondary and tertiary repositories)

User Applications (the ‘presentation layer’)

Metadata Fedora metadata repository

Standards and Mappings ….- BBC Infax to Dublin Core (EBU)- DC to UK-LOM Core- DC to MARC21- METS

- User generated metadata – e.g. annotation; tagging, folksonomies

Scholarly CommunicationDigital Libraries …Repositories have always been important;

standards have always been important

Tools for Scholarly Communication are changing ….

Open Archives – Open Source – Open Standards – Interoperability Standards (Technical and Metadata)

Library 2.0? Social learning

Social SoftwareSocio-technological world of the modern

learner

- Spoken Word sites in MySpace, Facebook and Bebo

- Ajax functionality - RSS and Podcast feeds for all repository

searches- Links through to Wikipedia, Google

Scholar- Tagging in Delicious

Accessing our resources 4 easy steps

- Go to www.spokenword.ac.uk

- Click on ‘Find Audio & Video’

- Sign up for a free educational user account

- Start searching

Padova live demo!

Media Annotation ToolsProject Pad – the vision- Let people work easily together with digital

media online- Provide powerful tools for critiquing and

sharing annotations of digital media objects online in real time

- Provide federated search and ability to shareannotated materials via repositories

Media Annotation ToolsProject Pad – the reality- Browser based annotation and

collaboration tool for images, audio and video

- Potential integration with repository and VLE environments

- Open Source- SAKAI tool or stand alone version- Developed in partnership with Academic

Technologies at Northwestern University

Project Pad screenshot- Designed for collaborative group work- Annotation of audio and video timelines- Flash client side; Java server side-Notes easily exported (as XML)

Some real world examplesWhat are the benefits of using Project Pad for

annotation?- Maureen Lister at Bologna : English language

teaching with BBC resources- Ken Alder at Northwestern: history teaching

with BBC resources- Jerry Goldman at Northwestern: teaching and

research using US Supreme Court audio testimony

Suggestions for further applications?- Annotating lectures?

Future developments?- Integration of Padova (finding aid) and

Project Pad (annotation tool)

- Re-using user generated metadata in Scholarly Communication ….

Range of SW servicesAdded value services ….- Audio recording and advice - Non-BBC media (e.g. GCPH; GCU Archives)- Provision of blog services- Advice on use of Open Source and standards- Interest in developing more fora for open

interactions with our colleagues e.g. rights awareness groups; TEL groups; reporting back from conferences to interested local groups

- Dissemination – local, national, international – raising profile of learning and teaching at GCU

Your input?We are very keen for our content and tools

to be used in many different contexts, and to have more users in FE

- Please publicise use of our resources- Let us know if you would like to

collaborate

Further Information

Much more information online atwww.spokenword.ac.uk